The band developed their unusual working method on their first single, Something For Your MIND – a chopped-up collage of slide guitar, nature sounds, wibbly synths and Orono’s deadpan vocals.

“Me and some of the guys in the band had tried in vain to record a garage rock album,” recalls Harry, “and by the end of that process, we came home and we were just like, ‘We don’t want to play loud guitars and drums in a room any more’.

“So we went back to the drawing board and said, ‘What can we do that’ll be more fresh and fun?’ And all the people who lived in our house became part of the band.”

Image copyrightDomino RecordsImage caption Orono (front, centre) and Harry (left, on keyboards) formed a friendship in 2015, and swapped recipes on Facebook before forming Superorganism

They “sketched out a few ideas” and, on a whim, emailed an early version of Something For Your MIND to Orono, one of Harry’s Facebook friends who was still at school in the US.

“Within an hour of her getting the track, she sent it back and the lyrics and the vocal are what you hear,” says Harry.

“It felt like everything had just fallen into place straight away. Orono fully got the vibe of what we were trying to achieve.”

To the band’s surprise, the single immediately created a buzz.

Within days of being uploaded to Soundcloud last February, it landed in Spotify’s influential New Music Friday playlist; and was featured by Frank Ocean and Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig on their radio shows.

“When Ezra Koenig played the song, I was like, ‘Woah, this is a big moment,'” recalls Orono.

“And then we started getting this crazy response from The Fader and all these big media outlets. I was like, ‘Oh Damn. This is for real!'”

Certainly, you’re unlikely to hear a more inventive record this year. The band’s debut album is a squishy mishmash of weird samples (birdsong, cash registers, apples being crunched) bound together by Orono’s nonchalant, earwormy vocals.

Lyrically, she depicts the angst and ennui of teenage life through the distancing filter of technology: “There’s something so affecting / In the reflections / On my screen”.

Her words are abstract but evocative – which is impressive, given that Orono had never attempted a lyric before joining Superorganism (although she had a neat line in Katy Perry fan fiction).

“I just always liked English class, I guess,” she says. “I don’t have a long attention span, so I haven’t really been reading books lately – but I like analysing lyrics and I like writing.”

The band have had to get used to the limelight pretty quickly. The success of Something For Your MIND and the subsequent singles Nobody Cares and It’s All Good earned them a place on the BBC’s Sound of 2018, while Rolling Stone magazine called them one of the “10 artists you need to know“.

Image copyrightJordan HughesImage caption The band design all their own artwork and videos

They’ve done it all on their own terms – with band member Robert Strange creating all their videos and tour backdrops; while Orono designs all the artwork.

The cover of Something For Your MIND even features a hand-drawn map of Tokyo Zoo – where the singer took Harry for a day out after meeting his previous group, The Eversons, at a gig three years ago.

So far, it’s worked like a charm.

“I think we skipped the most intimidating part of being in a band – where you play to 10 or 20 people in an empty room,” says Harry.

“Our first gig was in Hamburg to 500 people. And Orono just fell straight into it”

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Turning to his bandmate, he suddenly realises how traumatic that might have been.

“Did you find that intimidating?” he asks.

“Mmmm,” ponders the teenager. “The very, very first song we played, I was quite nervous… but I got into it quite quickly.

“But obviously I’ve had years of training – watching The Wiggles and dancing along.”

Image copyrightInstagram / @SprorgnsmImage caption The band have had a crash course in life on the road

Superorganism’s debut album, also called Superorganism, is released on Friday, 2 March.